Joanna McNamara

United Kingdom

Biography

Jo currently works at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) as a Senior lecturer, teaching across all health and social care courses, but primarily therapeutic radiography students. In addition, she’s also an accomplished researcher and has had over 40 publications, with a primary focus on workforce development, patient care and healthcare education. Keen to always push her development, in 2020 Jo spent a year on secondment with Macmillan as their first National Therapeutic Radiographer Clinical Fellow, where she sat on the Chief Medical Officers’ Team, as one of the first AHPs to raise the profile of radiotherapy within Macmillan. During her time there, Jo helped develop ‘PRosPer’ which has now led to further research on the impact of educational tools on prehab and rehab advice given by therapeutic radiographers. Outside of her day job, she is radiotherapy chair for the UK Acute Oncology Society, she co-chairs the Outreach and Promotion SIG and is a Personalised Care Institute Ambassador. As an avid STEM Ambassador, Jo has undertaken over a 1000 hours of outreach work promoting radiography and Allied Health Professions (AHP) over the last two years. She also finds time to support a number of charities, again in the field of oncology, including her role as the Yorkshire healthcare professional champion for 5K Your Way (5KYW) and Move charity, fulfilling the role of Radiotherapy UK Ambassador, creating fundraising events such as #miles4radiotherapy and helping raise to raise over £4000 for CoppaFeel Charity and Radiotherapy UK, by doing various horrific pain inducing activities including walking 100km across the Pembrokeshire Coast. Last, but not least is her hobby turned, part time weekend working with Naman on Rad Chat! Her passion for using 'voices' to educate and improve cancer care globally.